Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Monday Mini: An Update on the Women's World Cup
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Steph.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I never told your production of iHeartRadio.
- 0:18Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of the Monday Mini. And
- 0:22Speaker 2: I don't know how many this is because I think
- 0:23Speaker 2: we got a lot to say. We've already mentioned what
- 0:27Speaker 2: happened with the World Cup as Spain won and should
- 0:30Speaker 2: be celebrating. I think this is one of those tell
- 0:34Speaker 2: tale things of like, we can't have nice things, but
- 0:39Speaker 2: there is a rainbow at the end of this awful,
- 0:43Speaker 2: awful situation. So it's kind of like that. Okay, but
- 0:47Speaker 2: at least they're turning into something better. But yeah, we
- 0:51Speaker 2: wanted to do a quick update about what's happening with
- 0:54Speaker 2: the Spanish women's football club, the international World Cup champions,
- 0:59Speaker 2: who should only be celebrating.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Yep, but again, we can't have nice things.
- 1:05Speaker 2: And as as most of you already know if you
- 1:08Speaker 2: have been a part of any soccer news at all,
- 1:11Speaker 2: because even myself who has not followed along, and it
- 1:14Speaker 2: wasn't until you brought it up when we were talking
- 1:16Speaker 2: to Whitney about the incident that I even knew what
- 1:18Speaker 2: was going on, because I had been that out of
- 1:20Speaker 2: the loop that president of the Federation. Rabialis forcefully grabbed
- 1:28Speaker 2: a dinner for her mosa by the head to kiss
- 1:31Speaker 2: her as a I guess congratulatory we one type of thing.
- 1:35Speaker 2: There was a previous incident where he grabs his crotch
- 1:37Speaker 2: in front of the queen uh and makes a gesture
- 1:40Speaker 2: at the coach, who has his own set of problems
- 1:43Speaker 2: in order to celebrate the victory. Because that nothing like
- 1:46Speaker 2: grabbing your crotch and thrusting it at towards a coach
- 1:50Speaker 2: for women's soccer. Yeah, that truly celebrates a victory for
- 1:56Speaker 2: women's soccer.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Yep.
- 1:59Speaker 2: There's so many things that it's I'm like, bro, what what?
- 2:04Speaker 2: But at this time I cannot so on TikTok. I'm
- 2:07Speaker 2: on that side of TikTok as well. Many are saying
- 2:09Speaker 2: that he is resigning. I have yet to find any
- 2:12Speaker 2: articles to actually say that he's resigning. I know he's
- 2:15Speaker 2: been called on by the Federation after a lot of
- 2:18Speaker 2: gas lighting and victim blaming to actually have him step
- 2:21Speaker 2: down and resign, which many are like, just fire him,
- 2:25Speaker 2: for the love of all that is good, just fire him.
- 2:29Speaker 2: He shouldn't be given the honor of resigning to begin with.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Do you know if he's that's actually true, because I
- 2:36Speaker 2: have not found any articles to validate that.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Actually, Okay, so we should put the date on this one.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Oh yes, they.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Out. Yeah, we have a book. You can get it.
- 2:51Speaker 1: It has a lot of stuff about similar issues in sports.
- 2:56Speaker 1: So this is a quick changing, developing situation. Because when
- 3:02Speaker 1: Whitney came on, I was talking about it. We were
- 3:06Speaker 1: talking about it and it was like, you know, condemnation,
- 3:11Speaker 1: but you know, not that big. But now it's huge,
- 3:15Speaker 1: so much condemnation. And I saw a piece about it today.
- 3:21Speaker 1: I believe he has been He's definitely been astro design
- 3:26Speaker 1: I think he has to.
- 3:28Speaker 2: He's been suspended, suspended for ninety days. But it's feedful
- 3:34Speaker 2: so it's different than the actual federations. That's till Aston
- 3:36Speaker 2: to resign. He was suspended Saturday and there's a pending investigation,
- 3:42Speaker 2: so we'll see what they do. Right now, there's talks
- 3:45Speaker 2: of all the Spanish teams being suspended until he resigns
- 3:48Speaker 2: and not being able to play. There's a back and
- 3:50Speaker 2: forth like Real Madrid and all of those teams about
- 3:53Speaker 2: them not being able to compete. We know that all
- 3:57Speaker 2: of the eighty one players with eighty one players. Women
- 4:00Speaker 2: players were all saying they're not going to play until
- 4:03Speaker 2: he steps down in solidarity. We've seen several male players
- 4:08Speaker 2: also say that they would not play if he did
- 4:11Speaker 2: not step down, uh male Spanish players. We've also seen
- 4:16Speaker 2: all the coaches except for the head coach who has
- 4:19Speaker 2: been a part of the problem, all resign because of
- 4:23Speaker 2: the situation and maybe even more so other situations. So
- 4:26Speaker 2: I know that's all going down at this point in time,
- 4:29Speaker 2: which I think is very telling. Rubiellis's mom is on
- 4:36Speaker 2: a hunger strike in the church until he is justly
- 4:40Speaker 2: proven or something whatever. I know, like he's just that
- 4:43Speaker 2: this is unjust a procedure would stop against her son,
- 4:46Speaker 2: which I wanted to be like, this makes sense about
- 4:48Speaker 2: why he's being so headstrong that this this makes sense.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Yeah, and I believe it's probably been dropped by now.
- 4:58Speaker 1: I think this was a week ago, and this is
- 4:59Speaker 1: right after Whitney came on and then we were like
- 5:01Speaker 1: texting back and forth about all of this stuff. I
- 5:04Speaker 1: believe this Spanish soccer federation threatened to sue her Mosas, yes,
- 5:10Speaker 1: because they were like she lied even though there's photograph.
- 5:16Speaker 2: So yeah, so essentially what went down is they try
- 5:19Speaker 2: to come in and say, oh, that was consensual. The group,
- 5:23Speaker 2: the players have already agreed upon this, this was not
- 5:24Speaker 2: a bad thing, blah blah blah, which she came around
- 5:26Speaker 2: going no, no, no, no, no, no, this was not consensual.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Why would I ever consider this. I did not want this.
- 5:31Speaker 2: I did not have a choice. Literally, I just had
- 5:33Speaker 2: to deal with it because we were in public and he
- 5:35Speaker 2: grabbed me. There's nothing I can do, which is a
- 5:38Speaker 2: common conversation that women have amongst themselves about bad situations
- 5:43Speaker 2: with a dating. We know this non dating, just being
- 5:47Speaker 2: around men.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Well yeah, and that I kept mentioning in that episode
- 5:52Speaker 1: we did Whitney. I read this article about the history
- 5:55Speaker 1: of forcibly kissing women in public yep, and one of
- 5:58Speaker 1: the main examples they one of the most famous examples
- 6:01Speaker 1: is that World War two dipping up by soldier and
- 6:06Speaker 1: kissing her and it turns out she was like, oh God,
- 6:08Speaker 1: I just panicked. I was so scared. Like it. It's
- 6:11Speaker 1: framed as such a romantic ram and.
- 6:13Speaker 2: They're like, they didn't know each other, was just walking
- 6:16Speaker 2: down the street.
- 6:17Speaker 1: No, And actually there's kind of a horrifying history of
- 6:21Speaker 1: men returning from war and sexually assaulting women.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Or being at war as sexually assaulting women. Yeah, and
- 6:28Speaker 2: then that the whole like do you remember the I
- 6:31Speaker 2: believe it was it the Golden Globe? Uh m hm,
- 6:34Speaker 2: that's it. That that big kiss. Yeah, that was a
- 6:37Speaker 2: whole conversation. And yeah, this this is a constant thing.
- 6:50Speaker 2: So I'm going to read a couple of quotes from
- 6:52Speaker 2: a New York Times article about people's reactions essentially, But yeah,
- 6:56Speaker 2: so we were back to the whole, like they came
- 6:59Speaker 2: back after she said no, this was not consensual. The
- 7:01Speaker 2: federations like she lies, she lied, and we're going to
- 7:03Speaker 2: sue her because she's lying. And essentially she's like, we'll
- 7:06Speaker 2: bring it on, let's go, because why would I lie.
- 7:09Speaker 2: And then since then we've seen, like I saw on TikTok,
- 7:12Speaker 2: there's some clips of showing the coach being over the
- 7:16Speaker 2: top with their players, like grabbing their face, grabbing their ears,
- 7:20Speaker 2: grabbing like like all these things and being obviously sexist
- 7:24Speaker 2: to the point last year several of the players already
- 7:27Speaker 2: stepped down and they were suspended for refusing to play
- 7:29Speaker 2: with this coach. So that's the whole thing. But yeah,
- 7:34Speaker 2: with this again, they're talking about that there's a larger
- 7:37Speaker 2: problem that they've been talking about from the beginning. And
- 7:40Speaker 2: here's a quote, but Spanish society has erupted, seizing on
- 7:44Speaker 2: the incident as a major moment of reckoning for his
- 7:47Speaker 2: clubby and often sexist soccer culture. More than a dozen
- 7:51Speaker 2: female players rebelled last year long frustrated with unequal pay
- 7:55Speaker 2: what they considered overly harsh and controlling treatment by their
- 7:58Speaker 2: current coach or Heyda, including allegations that he rifled through
- 8:03Speaker 2: their personal belongings and a general culture of sexism. Many
- 8:07Speaker 2: were kicked off the team and missed the World Cup,
- 8:10Speaker 2: but one of these players, the La Guiardo, told the
- 8:12Speaker 2: newspaper El pas on Monday that it was worth the
- 8:15Speaker 2: pain of missing the glory. Ideas are ahead of metals,
- 8:18Speaker 2: she said. The entire team and dozens of other players
- 8:21Speaker 2: assigned a joint statement late Friday night saying that they
- 8:24Speaker 2: would not take the field to play for Spain if
- 8:26Speaker 2: the current managers continue. So obviously they've been having issues,
- 8:32Speaker 2: and in this situation, the world got to see publicly
- 8:37Speaker 2: what these issues were, and the world got to see
- 8:40Speaker 2: how the federation react, and no one could deny the
- 8:44Speaker 2: sexist lady like literally going back and forth saying I'm
- 8:47Speaker 2: going to sue the players because she's lying even though
- 8:50Speaker 2: we see it, at what point would they have been consensual?
- 8:54Speaker 1: Right? Right? And like we talked about, you know, I
- 8:58Speaker 1: don't think this is the end all, Beyall people react
- 9:00Speaker 1: differently in situations like this. But in that particular picture,
- 9:04Speaker 1: she does not look comfortable. It's not a picture that
- 9:09Speaker 1: looks consensual. I want to emphasize again that does not
- 9:13Speaker 1: mean like we should apply that standard to everything, but
- 9:17Speaker 1: it really and we have this picture and they hear,
- 9:20Speaker 1: they are saying like, no, she's a liar, will sue her?
- 9:25Speaker 1: Who is their star player, the best players right right now,
- 9:30Speaker 1: and they're more worried about protecting the men in charge
- 9:37Speaker 1: than the women on their team one in spite of this, yes.
- 9:42Speaker 2: In spite of losing teammates, in spite of seeing this
- 9:45Speaker 2: constant harassment and vilification. Obviously that happens often, and I
- 9:50Speaker 2: do find it interesting that it took until FIFA was
- 9:52Speaker 2: like a we're gonna we're gonna cut it, which a
- 9:56Speaker 2: lot of people from the jump set is gonna take FIFA,
- 9:58Speaker 2: it's gonna take the world. We're gonna s saying that
- 10:00Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to play internationally. You're
- 10:04Speaker 2: going to lose a lot of money. So you better
- 10:06Speaker 2: figure this out because the players can go wherever. I
- 10:09Speaker 2: know contracts are different and it could be difficult, but
- 10:12Speaker 2: the players don't play in their country, so you know,
- 10:16Speaker 2: many would love a world champion on their team. So hello.
- 10:21Speaker 2: This has also come to the point that there may
- 10:23Speaker 2: be actual criminal investigation within Spain apparently, so the current official,
- 10:31Speaker 2: the current administration. They are a socialist more liberal party
- 10:37Speaker 2: that they have come up on. So a lot of
- 10:39Speaker 2: them have already spoken out. They spoke out from jump.
- 10:42Speaker 2: I will say that about what has been happening and
- 10:44Speaker 2: what this looks like. I don't know if the royal
- 10:47Speaker 2: family has I haven't seen that. I'm sure there are
- 10:51Speaker 2: some statements that the Queen was standing right there, but
- 10:53Speaker 2: who knows. He did make it a full apology on that.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Of course, it came with a lot of excuses. It
- 10:59Speaker 2: came with all the excuses that you could imagine. But
- 11:01Speaker 2: he did make an apology about that. One thing that
- 11:04Speaker 2: he did say he kept using and I'm like, oh god,
- 11:07Speaker 2: this is about to come a false feminism. So it
- 11:10Speaker 2: seems like that he's a supporter of feminism, but then
- 11:14Speaker 2: he puts that false narrative, so therefore it's a false feminism.
- 11:17Speaker 2: And I'm like, this is a dog whistle. This is
- 11:19Speaker 2: a dog whistle that begins the end of like begins
- 11:21Speaker 2: the attack on feminism in general. And I find that interesting.
- 11:25Speaker 2: He kept saying it in his little speech that he
- 11:27Speaker 2: got applauded for. Everybody's like, oh, we're supporting him, and
- 11:32Speaker 2: now they want him to resign after that, but you know,
- 11:34Speaker 2: but yeah, no, But I find that interesting and very
- 11:38Speaker 2: dangerous this type of conversation, especially for a country that
- 11:41Speaker 2: has made waves in trying to become more left leaning,
- 11:46Speaker 2: more more liberal, I guess in itself and in his conversation
- 11:50Speaker 2: and trying to protect people, they have done a lot
- 11:52Speaker 2: of looking into what it looks like sex violence in
- 11:55Speaker 2: their country and naming things as it is. I think
- 11:58Speaker 2: the second in command actually said this was sexual violence.
- 12:02Speaker 2: This act that we see is sexual violence and naming
- 12:04Speaker 2: it as it is, which again urbialis try to come
- 12:07Speaker 2: back and this said that that was false feminism, which
- 12:10Speaker 2: and then try to add what happens when women are
- 12:12Speaker 2: really raped? They're not going to believe them. I'm like, oh, wow,
- 12:16Speaker 2: you are pulling all the stops the old tradition. Oh no,
- 12:22Speaker 2: all of them. And he was pulling it out like
- 12:24Speaker 2: this is the nineteen like two thousand and five, actually
- 12:27Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and it's like a brock Turner moment.
- 12:31Speaker 2: But it really is disgusting in that narrative, and unfortunately
- 12:36Speaker 2: he has people to back him. So here's another quote
- 12:39Speaker 2: that talks about it. If they want to get rid
- 12:43Speaker 2: of him for what he did before, then they should.
- 12:46Speaker 2: And she's talking about the grabbing of the crotch and
- 12:48Speaker 2: then any incidences. But the kiss is nonsense, says Beatrice Pina,
- 12:54Speaker 2: a fifty five year old soccer fan who was shopping
- 12:56Speaker 2: for her grandson at her local soccer teams store. It's
- 12:59Speaker 2: not sexual harassment or anything. And then they talked to
- 13:03Speaker 2: another person who was a supporter of the team. Had
- 13:06Speaker 2: the teacher was very excited and he said, and he
- 13:09Speaker 2: said this is a quote. Like many Spaniards, mister Duarte
- 13:13Speaker 2: was bothered that mister Rubialis grabbed his crotch in the
- 13:16Speaker 2: vicinity of the Spanish Queen and Princess during the celebration.
- 13:19Speaker 2: But he said he didn't see anything so terrible about
- 13:22Speaker 2: the kiss. It's like a kiss I could have given
- 13:24Speaker 2: to a friend, he said, adding that it was just
- 13:27Speaker 2: a gesture of affection.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Well, uh, there's a lot to impact because, as we
- 13:34Speaker 1: did talk about an episode of the Whitney, kissing on
- 13:37Speaker 1: the cheek is traditional in Spain. You know, there's a
- 13:39Speaker 1: different culture than here. So I don't want to come
- 13:42Speaker 1: inte on that. But that was not this.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Also, she has said she didn't want it. She has
- 13:49Speaker 1: said it multiple times. I hate that she's had to
- 13:52Speaker 1: really reiterate this statement, but she has. And also he
- 13:59Speaker 1: only did it to her, right, and there was like
- 14:02Speaker 1: a lot of people, and so I'm kind of like,
- 14:05Speaker 1: if that's a friend, right the case you could give
- 14:08Speaker 1: a friend, is she your only friend?
- 14:12Speaker 2: Like, I'm sorry, I know the kissing on the cheek
- 14:16Speaker 2: is a thing I've met many people, like the European
- 14:18Speaker 2: that doesn't it doesn't necessarily like I'm going to touch
- 14:21Speaker 2: a failing person who I don't love it in itself.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I don't love hugs all the time unless I know
- 14:25Speaker 2: you will. But like that was a full on, forceful
- 14:31Speaker 2: head Like if anybody grabs my head, there's a good
- 14:34Speaker 2: chance I'm punching mm hmmm, or I'm falling down like
- 14:37Speaker 2: I've done both of those things where i'd like get
- 14:39Speaker 2: into the fetal position sitting down because I'm trying to
- 14:41Speaker 2: for you not to touch me, because that's to me
- 14:43Speaker 2: a threat in control. You're controlling me somehow, especially when
- 14:48Speaker 2: we know he's never done that to a man.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Mmmmm mm hmmm. Going back to this article I keep referencing,
- 15:05Speaker 1: that was what they were saying. It was like this
- 15:07Speaker 1: idea that women's bodies are just up for it's fine
- 15:10Speaker 1: to use them how you want, touch them, how you want,
- 15:14Speaker 1: make it about you, because that's what he really did.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Like I just can't stress enough. I wish we could
- 15:19Speaker 1: just talk about their win, right, and instead we have
- 15:23Speaker 1: to talk about this. But also he made it about
- 15:25Speaker 1: him right even before this and the male coach he was,
- 15:29Speaker 1: he was saying they won because of them, these two men,
- 15:34Speaker 1: and not this team.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Right, which is hysterical, Like do you understand you don't
- 15:39Speaker 2: have a team.
- 15:40Speaker 1: You don't have a win, like I don't this this.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Is not calculating in your head. But yeah, there needs
- 15:46Speaker 2: to be massive change, and I hate that for our
- 15:49Speaker 2: team that won their first World Cup. Ever, this is
- 15:53Speaker 2: the discussion, and that they are being vilified in their
- 15:56Speaker 2: own country by some by some of the more powerful
- 16:01Speaker 2: because they can't have autonomy, like has he apologized? Yeah,
- 16:10Speaker 2: this would be so different. Yeah, And I think how
- 16:14Speaker 2: it's a responsibility.
- 16:15Speaker 1: How do you like truly meant anything that he said
- 16:21Speaker 1: and apologize and taken responsibility. But I also think this
- 16:24Speaker 1: goes back to a couple of things, but one of
- 16:29Speaker 1: them is being when people love something and you don't
- 16:32Speaker 1: like it, when people are like, well, look at this
- 16:35Speaker 1: problem with this thing, right, I don't think Oh. I
- 16:37Speaker 1: think a lot of fans are just like, let us celebrate.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Why can't we celebrate? And we're like, yeah, I'm sure
- 16:41Speaker 1: that's what they want to.
- 16:43Speaker 2: They they it despite all these other things.
- 16:51Speaker 1: But there's also, I will say as disheartenings. A lot
- 16:57Speaker 1: of this is there has been a lot of support
- 17:00Speaker 1: or Omoso, the stand with Hormoso, a lot of a
- 17:05Speaker 1: lot of teams, a lot of players posting about it.
- 17:10Speaker 1: It was trending, so that's it's nice to see. It's
- 17:15Speaker 1: some of those things like me too, which this feels
- 17:18Speaker 1: kind of like a me too moment where it's like
- 17:22Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated that we have to have this, but
- 17:27Speaker 1: it is nice that people are supporting, people are stepping
- 17:31Speaker 1: up and supporting right.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think the team supporting each other has
- 17:36Speaker 2: been phenomenal. The coaches that were like, we're not about
- 17:39Speaker 2: this walking away from the head coach as well, that's
- 17:42Speaker 2: pretty phenomenal. And then like the other Spanish soccer players,
- 17:47Speaker 2: the men who are like, yeah, we don't agree with
- 17:49Speaker 2: those either, and this is absolutely atrocious and seeing it
- 17:52Speaker 2: for what it is, so hopefully this will open up
- 17:54Speaker 2: to a bigger conversation. I hate that this had to
- 17:56Speaker 2: happen now, but then it's been happening, as you can
- 17:59Speaker 2: tell from the other players who are not a part
- 18:00Speaker 2: of it to begin with, because of this constant abuse
- 18:05Speaker 2: and constant atmosphere. And again we've talked about this in
- 18:09Speaker 2: the US, it's happened. You have to break down so
- 18:12Speaker 2: much of the misogyny when you realize how much is tainted.
- 18:16Speaker 2: And then like the bs that the people want to
- 18:19Speaker 2: start like this doesn't happen in men's sports, yeah, because
- 18:21Speaker 2: they are already given the respect of not being touched
- 18:23Speaker 2: like that to beget with like that. The difference is
- 18:27Speaker 2: what's the problem.
- 18:27Speaker 1: Right, And that's a great point because we've had these
- 18:30Speaker 1: issues in the US with the US women's gymnastics team
- 18:36Speaker 1: and so it is widespread and that's frustrating too. But
- 18:43Speaker 1: the fact that Ruby Alis felt so confident to do
- 18:48Speaker 1: this in public, in front of cameras, it's to me
- 18:53Speaker 1: that is extremely telling to what was probably happening behind
- 18:56Speaker 1: the scenes.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Right, you have to be like, if that's public, what's
- 18:59Speaker 2: private it? What's he hiding? Yes, well, congratulations Spain, I.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Hate it, but yes, congratulations. Like we said, this is quickly.
- 19:18Speaker 1: A lot of this is quickly changing, so I wouldn't
- 19:21Speaker 1: be surprised if we have more to say about it soon.
- 19:26Speaker 1: But yeah, really really has lit a fire as yep. Well,
- 19:40Speaker 1: if we missed anything or if you have any thoughts
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